Use quepy in my QA system

Roozbeh Shirvani

unread,

Jul 23, 2016, 9:44:45 PM7/23/16

to Quepy

I am building a QA system for my own application which is, given a paragraph I want the system to be able to answer questions about the given paragraph.

I was wondering how Quepy can help me to do such a task. If not, what kind of open source systems I can use.

It might not be related to this post but accept my apology if it is not.

Rafael Carrascosa

unread,

Jul 25, 2016, 8:34:44 AM7/25/16

to qu...@googlegroups.com

Hi,

Quepy was not built with that use case in mind... and the task you mention is so big that I would not even know where to start with a recommendation.

Perhaps you can try separating 'knowledge extraction' (from the paragraph) from the actual 'question answering' (the kind of thing where IEPY helps).

Cheers!

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+un...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Nick Lothian

unread,

Jul 25, 2016, 8:53:46 AM7/25/16

to qu...@googlegroups.com

I've done a little work in this area, mostly for the recent AllenAi Kaggle competition. It turned out that the most effective approaches were information retrieval (ie search) based.

Look at the models developed for that and also the QuizBowl research area. The Google 'learning to read and comprehend' paper may be related, and approaches related to that represent the state of the art.

A warning though: this is an unsolved problem.

Roozbeh Shirvani

unread,

Jul 25, 2016, 2:17:07 PM7/25/16

to Quepy

Hi Nick and Raphael,

Thanks for the follow up and your advise. I took a look at the Deepmind's paper and it is indeed very interesting task and it has a lot of room for improvements, I am going to start with this paper and their code. Also Nick, I was wondering if any body put out his Kaggle result out there so that I can take look, Paper or repository I mean. I have not heard of IEPY and it seems a very helpful one for the task that I am interested.

BTW, you are absolutely right, this is very challenging problem.

Thanks for your time,

Rouzbeh

On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 8:53:46 AM UTC-4, Nick Lothian wrote:

I've done a little work in this area, mostly for the recent AllenAi Kaggle competition. It turned out that the most effective approaches were information retrieval (ie search) based.

Look at the models developed for that and also the QuizBowl research area. The Google 'learning to read and comprehend' paper may be related, and approaches related to that represent the state of the art.

A warning though: this is an unsolved problem.

On Monday, 25 July 2016, Rafael Carrascosa <rafacar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Quepy was not built with that use case in mind... and the task you mention is so big that I would not even know where to start with a recommendation.
Perhaps you can try separating 'knowledge extraction' (from the paragraph) from the actual 'question answering' (the kind of thing where IEPY helps).

Cheers!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Roozbeh Shirvani <rouzbeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am building a QA system for my own application which is, given a paragraph I want the system to be able to answer questions about the given paragraph.
I was wondering how Quepy can help me to do such a task. If not, what kind of open source systems I can use.
It might not be related to this post but accept my apology if it is not.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

Nick Lothian

unread,

Jul 25, 2016, 7:14:37 PM7/25/16

to qu...@googlegroups.com

Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03340

Kaggle Links:
http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/04/09/the-allen-ai-science-challenge-winners-interview-3rd-place-alejandro-mosquera/
https://github.com/Cardal/Kaggle_AllenAIscience (1st place. Some explanations: https://github.com/vihari/Cardal-AllenAI-commented)
https://github.com/amsqr/Allen_AI_Kaggle (3rd place)
https://github.com/bwilbertz/kaggle_allen_ai
https://github.com/tambetm/allenAI (4th Place)

Allen AI have published plenty in the area: http://allenai.org/papers.html

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Roozbeh Shirvani <rouzbeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Nick and Raphael,

Thanks for the follow up and your advise. I took a look at the Deepmind's paper and it is indeed very interesting task and it has a lot of room for improvements, I am going to start with this paper and their code. Also Nick, I was wondering if any body put out his Kaggle result out there so that I can take look, Paper or repository I mean. I have not heard of IEPY and it seems a very helpful one for the task that I am interested.

BTW, you are absolutely right, this is very challenging problem.

Thanks for your time,

Rouzbeh

On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 8:53:46 AM UTC-4, Nick Lothian wrote:

I've done a little work in this area, mostly for the recent AllenAi Kaggle competition. It turned out that the most effective approaches were information retrieval (ie search) based.

Look at the models developed for that and also the QuizBowl research area. The Google 'learning to read and comprehend' paper may be related, and approaches related to that represent the state of the art.

A warning though: this is an unsolved problem.

On Monday, 25 July 2016, Rafael Carrascosa <rafacar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Quepy was not built with that use case in mind... and the task you mention is so big that I would not even know where to start with a recommendation.
Perhaps you can try separating 'knowledge extraction' (from the paragraph) from the actual 'question answering' (the kind of thing where IEPY helps).

Cheers!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Roozbeh Shirvani <rouzbeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am building a QA system for my own application which is, given a paragraph I want the system to be able to answer questions about the given paragraph.
I was wondering how Quepy can help me to do such a task. If not, what kind of open source systems I can use.
It might not be related to this post but accept my apology if it is not.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+un...@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+un...@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+un...@googlegroups.com.

Roozbeh Shirvani

unread,

Jul 26, 2016, 11:46:55 AM7/26/16

to Quepy

Nick,

Thanks a lot for this valuable information.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quepy" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to quepy+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply all

Reply to author

Forward